It's Official: DAVID LEE ROTH To Succeed HOWARD STERN
October 10, 2005Roger Friedman of FOXNews.com has issued the following report:
The rumors were true: I can tell you exclusively that sometime next month, Infinity Broadcasting will announce that David Lee Roth is taking over for Howard Stern.
The one-time lead singer of VAN HALEN will assume the microphone in New York and several other markets where Stern's show is heard.
Still not set is where Adam Carolla, former co-host of "The Man Show", will be in place, but sources close to the action tell me that Roth and Carolla will not be together.
Roth is represented by the all-knowing, all-seeing Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, so you know he has an ironclad contract.
The president of programming for Infinity Broadcasting, which owns Stern's show, said last winter that there wouldn't be one person replacing the notorious shock jock. And he was right. Roth and Carolla will divide up the territories so that no one person can regain Stern's monopoly of the airwaves. Carolla will likely have the West Coast.
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